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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: GNUser on December 11, 2025, 02:21:00 PM

Title: flatpak and TCL
Post by: GNUser on December 11, 2025, 02:21:00 PM
Every now and then there is an interesting application that I would like to try which is available for linux only as source code or flatpak. I don't have a specific application in mind at the moment but it happens often enough.

Would a flatpak extension add value to TCL x86_64? I'm not sure--maybe it is philosophically incompatible with TCL principles (too complex, with too many hooks into dbus +/- gnome-things)?

I'd be interested in knowing what the TCL developers and other users think about this. I don't want to put in the work of creating a flatpak.tcz (or requesting it if my efforts lead to a dead end) if it's not a good fit for our favorite OS.
Title: Re: flatpak and TCL
Post by: GNUser on December 11, 2025, 02:56:24 PM
It seems a TCL extension and a flatpak are antithetical in every possible way. I think I've answered my own question. Sorry for the noise.
Title: Re: flatpak and TCL
Post by: hiro on December 11, 2025, 07:35:08 PM
i for one would like your answer to be more concrete. is it just the dbus things? or what exactly? i have never looked deeply what dependencies there are for flatpak.